Tag: Phil Collins

The album is named after an incident at The Pump Room restaurant in Chicago, Illinois. Collins (entering the restaurant with Robert Plant), was denied admittance because he did not meet the restaurant’s dress code of “jacket required” for dinner, while Plant was allowed in. Collins was wearing a jacket, and argued about it. The Maître d’ argued that the jacket was not “proper”. Collins, in an interview with Playboy, said that he was, at that point, never so mad in his life. After the incident, the singer often appeared on shows such as Late Night with David Letterman and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, denouncing the restaurant and telling his story. The management of the restaurant later sent him a complimentary sport coat and an apology letter, stating that he could come to the restaurant wearing whatever he wanted.

An estimated 250 fans of the drummer/singer/songwriter/Miami Vice guest star/Alamo memorabilia collector turned out in Greenpoint on Tuesday night for a tribute to the man who gave the world “Susudio.”

Since finishing my read-through of the Logic 8 instruments and effects manual I’ve thought the best way to learn some sound design was not to create something new, but to replicate the sound of something that already exists.

I have a few classic synth lines I want to try to redo in Logic (or Reason 4) and today we’ll start with something simple: the synth in Genesis’s Abacab.

I’m not sure what synthesizer was used on the track, but part of replicating the sound is to really think about what you hear when it plays. Here’s what I hear: